Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 6, 2019 Last time I had an actual puppy in my life, I was 12. All the siblings had already graduated from high school, and it was just me and the ’rents in a big and overly quiet house. I don’t remember much about having Arbie as an 8-week-old,…… Continue reading Dog whisperer
Category: 2019
Bud vase diaries
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 1, 2019 Three days before my French aunt Bibiche’s (Bee-beesh) 95th birthday recently, I remembered that I’d forgotten it (again), and that (again) it was too late to send a card or letter or anything that would show care, appreciation, forethought and good manners, the kind she had and…… Continue reading Bud vase diaries
Onion skins
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 4, 2019 One of my favorite quotes of all time is actually from Ernest Hemingway: “The hardest thing about writing [or painting, for that matter] is that first you have to clean the refrigerator.” Brilliant. Because for some of us, before doing anything that requires use of the creative…… Continue reading Onion skins
Sea-green helmets
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 6, 2019 By far, the two most important and far-reaching things we did this summer were tiny in the enormous scheme of it all: We spent $8 and got a hummingbird feeder, like millions of other people before us; and we borrowed “Devotions” by the poet Mary Oliver from…… Continue reading Sea-green helmets
Purple stain
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 2, 2019 Anybody from the northwest who likes a little sour in their fruits or is a sucker for anything that ends in “berry,” (thimbleberry, salmonberry, huckleberry, Marionberry and cloudberry, among others on a long list) will vouch for the blackberry’s true standing in the ranks. For one thing,…… Continue reading Purple stain
Accordion files
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 5, 2019 A bunch of years ago (almost 20) when I was in my I-don’t-know-what phase, I became smitten by this idea of playing the accordion. Of having one in my arms, doing the squeezy thing, and somehow reinventing myself, one more time, as someone who … well, played…… Continue reading Accordion files
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